David Suchet is Ambassador for Fitness Over Sixty

Award winning Poirot actor swaps moustache for yoga mat at son’s Bath
based boutique fitness studio.

August 20, 2019: Actor David Suchet (CBE) claims physical fitness and movement has been key to his successful career, spanning over 50 years on stage and in television.

The 73 year old, most famous for his portrayal of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, was recently interviewed with his son, Rob Suchet, co-founder of Bath’s riverside boutique fitness studio, CLASS. “Exercise has easily added 10 years onto my career, and my life,” claims David, who watches what he eats and trains regularly with a personal trainer in London and at CLASS in Bath.

Rob, an award winning personal trainer and nutritional therapist, agrees that keeping fit is crucial if you want to keep the aging process at bay. “The less we move the faster we age, so exercise becomes more important the older we get,” he explains. “At CLASS we’ve created specific ‘Upper Class’ sessions to cater to the requirements of the over 60s. We focus on mobility, flexibility, strength and balance to help better equip older people for everyday tasks in a friendly, un-intimidating environment.”

“I know staying active is even more important now then when I was younger,” continues David, who is a big fan of the Upper Class Turn & Burn™ sessions - a 45 minute workout combining cardiovascular training on whole-body exercise bikes and resistance exercises at fully-equipped individual stations. “But slowing down, meditation and stretching are also vital,” he adds. In addition to five different types of yoga, CLASS also offer Primal Patterns™, a floor-based exercise session combining natural movement with new skills to create beautiful, fluid patterns of movement.

No matter what age we are, regular exercise increases blood flow, and improves delivery of oxygen and nutrients to muscles, ligaments and tendons. Resistance exercise increases bone density and strengthens joints, and dynamic training ‘wakes up’ the receptors that help us to balance.